The End

Tomer Persico:

The question, then, to paraphrase Gershom Scholem’s remark, with which we began, is whether Zionism will be able to withstand the impulse to realize itself conclusively and become history.

Shlomo Maistre:

The consummation of the world is the return of Judah's scepter, in the hand of King Solomon's seed, to the Temple.

The Temple Mount is the end towards which Zionism has ever strived, of course.

Fulfilling prophecy is not the end of only Zionism, but actually the end of history - the consummation of the world - and this is manifestly evident to anyone able to see that Zionism is the process of restoring Judaism and that Judaism, as original monotheism, is inherently true.  In sum, Zionism is collective ba'al teshuva - effectively.  Insofar as one understands Zionism as Judaism, the former likely has restored the latter.  Reclamation of the Temple Mount is the final realization of Judaism.

The reader, no matter how tender, cannot doubt this most conceited writer's exceptional percipience, acuity, and ingenuity.  These innate attributes of his intuition have rendered his mind monstrously proficient in understanding - understanding that which is and that which must be.  This proficiency in understanding was initially by this writer only used - used in understanding only that which is, used in service of changing one's mind about what ought to be, used through intellectual revolution.

Understanding can be used in service of what ought to be or what must be.  Never both.

As what is changes and - in accordance with what must be - inevitably diverges from any articulation of that which ought to be, there is increasing incentive to use understanding in service of what must be instead of what ought to be.  This path typically leads to learned apathy.  This writer's such path led to "Deductive Prosecutions" by virtue of not only his exceptional intuition but also his austere, contrarian, and mystical intellectual disposition.

That his prose is unusually acerbic, elegant, and epodic does not grant this writer a reprieve from having engaged in the most obtuse method of expression, which is the written word.  Even the most tender reader, though, must concede that his unusual prose - given its purpose - reduces the magnitude of his crime, since it is in well enough imitating the form of revelation to evince its function that prose may be sufficiently anachronistic to fulfill the paradoxical purpose of communicating truth to prove the inherent futility of all communication, whether written or not.

I have revealed mortal truths - at once shadows, consequences, and proofs of Truth, that unity of being, that eternal essence that binds all that is, that which is beyond the scope of human comprehension.  This was perhaps worthwhile, but definitely unnecessary.

I remain without remorse.

Scotland's Referendum: The Unicorn's Heart Yearns For Unity

That the United Kingdom's government has permitted and, indeed, legitimized a referendum on Scottish independence constitutes an abject surrender to cheap, crass nationalism.  Which is not to say, of course, that lending such legitimacy to the referendum was the wrong move on the part of Westminster, for influence is a child born as much to favor as to triumph.  And yet one can't help but note that retaining influence is a mere consolation prize when general and virtuous obedience once preserved such prodigious power in Westminster to be mistaken for a glimmer of sovereignty not thought to even be subject to such trivialities as provincial masquerades votes.

The disunion of the unicorn and the lion appears to be coming to pass.  One of the very last appendages of what was once the core of the British Empire is being torn apart by the discord of disobedience.

It's true, of course, that the British Empire in certain ways spread such absurdities as democracy, natural rights, and government by consent to the world.  But the British Empire was an Empire.  It was at least by form a purportedly unitary, unified, and centralized power that ruled by royal decree.  For much of its life the British Empire, for all its philosophical flaws, ruled by presumed sovereignty.

Westminster has walked a long and tortuous path from commanding a most glorious Empire to conducting public relations for a middling, regional power averting European sideshow status by the coattails of American hegemony.  Indeed, the discord born of time's passing has long since stripped the British Empire of her many overseas territories to which she had beneficently transmitted so many of those habits, forms, and prejudices she had cultivated for centuries and, through her stern hand afforded by her Royal providence, elevated her hosts culturally, technologically, and economically with such alacrity and to such prodigious heights that one can even today map with impressive accuracy where around the globe her imperial finger touched by simply charting where the lights of industrial civilization shine into the bleak, empty darkness of outer space.

That the tide of history has now at this late moment swept ashore to the very island of Great Britain is made plain by this true fact noted by all the talking heads: regardless of which way Scotland votes, the makeup of power in the United Kingdom is changed by this referendum.  Well, "not the actual referendum" the astute reader points out - and he is right (and still tender to this most conceited prophet of revelation) since it's the groundswell of public sentiment, this writer notes with melancholy, that modifies the constitutions of powers of nations.

And though this writer is well aware that this Scottish referendum, like all mortal rebellions against His providence, is in a certain sense inevitable, foreseen, and ultimately unavoidable in one form or another, he nonetheless is rather wistful and perhaps a bit grim thinking about it.

For every tortured fallacy of the modern age, though, there is a suitably retrograde retort - in which the tender reader, no matter how despondent, may take heart by way of a kind of aesthetic vengeance.

Demonstrating Progressives' backwards understanding of everything, it has generally been said that Scots voting their head will vote "nay" and Scots voting their heart will vote "aye".

This most arrogant savant implores the Scots to listen to their hearts, really ponder deeply and deliberate upon the inherent beauty of the unified essence by which all that is is - and to therefore vote no.

G-d save the Queen.

Convictions

The more meanings a modern ear ascribes to the words of a foreign language, the more likely the foreign language is possessed of a (more) fundamental grasp of the essential nature of man's condition - ultimately by virtue of its relative proximity to the divine origin of all language.  After all, though not all foreign languages are dead, all dead languages are foreign!

Although (unlike most men) this most conceited writer understands puns to be the sorrowful imitations of that they are, he could not justifiably refrain from entitling this post with one word of two meanings that are both not only eminently appropriate but also bound together as two sides of the same coin - by the elucidations enumerated subsequently.  In other words, tender reader, the faith by which each of these convictions is by this writer understood is the means by which he has convicted reality of its eternal veracity.

Below are the convictions established by Deductive Prosecutions over the past ~17 months.

1. All in One.

2. Essential truth is incommunicable.

3. Truth is inherently so.

4. The disorder wrought by time is inherent.

5. Sovereignty is infallible.

6. Man observes effect, never cause.

7. The right of heredity is inevitable.

8. Human reason is both disorder and disorderly.

9. Worth is neither justifiable nor falsifiable.

10. How and why are ultimately synonyms.

11. Men, not ink blots, rule.

12. Silence is golden.

13. Meaning is experienced, not discovered through deliberation.

14. Progressivism is demonic religion.

15. The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.

Democracy: The Show Must Go On

My maître à penser once wrote:

America is often cited to us: I know nothing so provoking as the praise showered on this babe-in-arms: let it grow.

It has certainly grown!  Oh, how it has grown!  Such praise now provokes only silent chuckles and agnostic grins among the wise - and even just the learned.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

Alarmed that fewer than one-fourth of voters are showing up for municipal elections, the Los Angeles Ethics Commission voted Thursday to recommend that the City Council look at using cash prizes to lure a greater number of people to the polls. 

On a 3-0 vote, the panel said it wanted City Council President Herb Wesson's Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee to seriously consider the use of financial incentives and a random drawing during its elections, possibly as soon as next year. 

Depending on the source of city funds, the idea could require a ballot measure. Commissioners said they were unsure how big the prizes should be or how many should be offered, saying a pilot program should first be used to test the concept.

Long has the farce of America's government indicted the likes of Thomas Jefferson as hopelessly naive, fundamentally misguided, and remarkably juvenile charlatans.  It would appear, though, that the Los Angeles City Council is determined to render the humiliation of the so-called Founding Fathers a bit more thorough by elevating the comedy of American theater "democracy" to the genuinely surreal.

An American sensation once unwittingly encapsulated the American devotion to democratic principles:

The show must go on 

I'll face it with a grin 

I'm never giving in 

On with the show

Gnon's retort:

So be it.  [A French translation: Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.]

Obedience: A Mortal Imperative

Sovereignty, the cosmic force that binds societies, is realized through all time.  It is inevitably realized because it must be.  Always.  Indeed, sovereignty, permeating that realm where all that is should be, transcends time.

The mortal domain, marked by time, is imbued with a mere shadow of sovereignty: power, which is the capacity to act through time.

In the mortal domain sovereignty is realized through obedience to power.

In the mortal realm power takes two forms: first as influence and second as action.  Influence is power that is perceived, while action is power that is realized.

Disorder, an intrinsic quality of the mortal realm, is the consequence of mutually exclusive effects.  Human desire, born of man’s universal degradation, is a general effect that renders social disorder in afflicting all men in all societies of all times.  A society is disorderly insofar as its power is perceived as political.  Inasmuch as power is, in other words, perceived to exist for social instead of spiritual purposes, it will likely be realized as such more quickly.

That is what we notice as violence.

For though all mortal power can (eventually) only serve the social purpose of preserving sovereignty, the process of ruling men is rendered rather less painful so far as those men act in accordance with sovereignty, the general interest, and the long-term (these, tender reader, are when properly understood demonstrative synonyms!), which is to say: obey – obey out of belief in power’s spiritual purpose.

But the disobedience that extricated man from divine provenance is defiling – thoroughly defiling.  Man knows only sin, for man was conceived in sin generally (metaphysically) and by sin particularly (literally).  Ergo, man rebels against authority.  But man can rebel less often and less egregiously!  To a degree.

In assuming that power is perceived as it ought to be, power is realized with less severity and less frequency.

Rephrase: in assuming that influence is distributed as it ought to be, action to modify the distribution of influence is undertaken with less severity and less frequency.

Rephrase: in assuming that things are as they ought to be, things become closer to how they should be.

If we define submission as obedience to sovereign power as a consequence of violence and belief as assumption of that which ought to be clothed in the garb of that which is, then we may rephrase yet again: insofar as obedience is offered by virtue of belief, obedience need not be eventually compelled by virtue of submission.  We see, tender reader, that Joseph de Maistre’s remark regarding submission and belief ("[…]these two infants of heaven prove their origin to all[…]”) was rather spot-on.

Sovereignty permeates only that realm where all that is should be.  The mortal domain, experiencing time, is imbued with power: the capacity to act through time.  It is through manifested power that all sovereignty is realized.  Since action is inevitable and every action is in some sense communication and since every communication betrays implicit meaning just as every action betrays implicit intention, it is only- but always! - through manifested power (action) that sovereignty is realized.  Action that realizes sovereignty through the meaning of action demonstrates (by definition) belief in sovereignty, while action that realizes sovereignty through the intention of action demonstrates (by definition) submission to sovereignty.

Sovereignty is realized by mortals through obedience to its incarnation in the mortal domain; power is obeyed, whether by submission or by belief.

Tisha B'av 2014

לבנות מחדש

Hope For America?

Were we at Deductive Prosecutions less discriminating in the vices we indulge in we might engage in hope after reading this, but we aren't so we don't.

An Meine Völker!

With those words did the Great War begin one hundred years ago.

The Great War was an unmitigated catastrophe for mankind.

Though this conceited writer has rather much to elucidate regarding the devastating conflagration that through total war so violently convulsed societies so as to irreparably alter their very natures and in so doing seemingly extirpate the age of monarchy from the West, he will for now simply say of it what should be clear to every learned mind: the wrong side won.

A Public Service Announcement

ארץ ישראל שייכת לעם ישראל

Do What's Necessary

Life is replete with paradoxes.

There is no success that obviates the necessity of further achievement.  And yet man most ably achieves worth in ascribing absolute worth to transient thresholds of success in his own life.

Since it's impossible for man to do anything but his best, I implore the tender reader to refrain from doing his best, as such cop-outs are unbecoming.  Instead, the tender reader should write down an impossible-to-achieve set of objectives.  Then he should achieve them.

Worth requires no justification.  There is no substitute for success, since worth is inherently so.

Beauty, justice, and goodness are aligned with truth.

Do not do your best.  Do what is necessary.

Teleonomy: Demonic Sophistry

Teleology claims at the very least that there is a such thing as τέλος.


Though this conceited writer has found much sophistry in claims, he recognizes that teleology's encapsulates an intuition sufficiently pure of mortal contamination to be judiciously designated as true.  The intuition of teleology is that the end towards which a phenomenon serves is that phenomenon's ultimate purpose and, therefore, cause.  τέλος, after all, means both end and purpose!


The universe tends towards ends that are specific to its manifestation.  Every phenomenon in the mortal domain has a purpose, which is in a sense if not its end then at least the end towards which it serves, which, tender reader, is (its) τέλος.

Since anything with a beginning has an ending, τέλος is not only implied by but thoroughly bound up in theology.

Since the degradation wrought by time is inherent, as time passes man understands fundamental intuition with less perspicacity.  Man's fading grasp of intuition is a key impetus for his construction of new ideas (and corresponding words) to fill voids where his understanding once permeated with sufficient completeness to obviate any need for explication.  Indeed, man only ever constructs new words to compensate for his fading capacity to understand.  Insofar as a new word is reputed to assist in recognizing an idea, its use typically does only that - compensates for man's fading capacity to understand (generally by the implied meaning of use) - but insofar as a new word is reputed to encapsulate a new idea, its use also accelerates man's fading understanding because there is no such thing as a new idea, least of all one conjured by a mortal!


Enter teleonomy.


Teleonomy claims that the causes of the functions of living beings derive ultimately from evolution.  This sophistry denies at once man of free will and his Maker of His divine hand by which the affairs of man are in some sense regulated.  And yes, tender reader, teleology vindicates a certain sort of compatibilism.


Eliezer Yudkowsky:


In biology, similarly, we explain the regular formation of teeth, not by letting it be caused directly by the future act of chewing, but by using the theory of natural selection to relate past events of chewing to the organism's current genetic makeup, which physically controls the formation of the teeth.  Thus, we account for the current regularity of the teeth by referring only to past and present events, never to future events.  Such evolutionary reasoning is called "teleonomy", in contrast with teleology.


Evolution is not science, but self-fulfilling prophecy.  It is not falsifiable.


In any case, that nobody can account for anything current by referring to future events proves neither teleology false nor teleonomy true.  And while the regular formation of teeth in humans across time and place for some suffices as adequate evidence of Him, it does not so suffice for this writer for the same reason that he recognizes that no general pattern can be accounted for by any single future event that man can conceive of: he is far too confident in the nature of the reality beyond human comprehension by virtue of his faith born of the blackness of blind revelation to confuse a manifestation of His design for anything but.

Teleology is true because the universe was created by He who possesses, among other things, intelligence beyond our deepest imaginings.  As such, the purpose or end for which the universe was created is likewise beyond our deepest imaginings.  But there must be such an ultimate purpose because all that begins must end - and would end earlier given lack of purpose.  The purpose so far as mere man is concerned is the end, but the ultimate end was the purpose of His creation.  Think on these words, Eliezer.


Eliezer again:


We can see that the efficient cause is primary, not the final cause, by considering what happens when the two come into conflict.  The efficient cause of human taste buds is natural selection on past human eating habits; the final cause of human taste buds is acquiring nutrition.  From the efficient cause, we should expect human taste buds to seek out resources that were scarce in the ancestral environment, like fat and sugar.  From the final cause, we would expect human taste buds to seek out resources scarce in the current environment, like vitamins and fiber.  From the sales numbers on candy bars, we can see which wins.


Extravagant fallacies piled one on top of another!  A modern marvel!


First of all, by his own logic, Eliezer should consider it unfathomable for man's taste buds to alter their affinity for fat and sugar (that took, by his telling, thousands of years) to suddenly evolve strong preference for vitamins and fiber!


Second of all, if Eliezer wishes to understand why it is that people these days tend to exercise remarkably little restraint in their dietary habits he would do well to recall two simple realities: modern technology and the welfare state.  The former enables the development, production, and delivery of food of immense quantity and variety to poor people the world over like never before in human history.  The latter enables poor people in Western (and many non-Western) nations to do almost nothing of value and pass their genes onto the next generation (often with more proportional frequency than those who do rather more of value; this is sometimes known, Eliezer, as dysgenics).


So when there were no such things as modern technology or the welfare state, people more often had to A) work to eat and B) do things of substantial value to pass on their genes to the next generation.


Third of all, vitamins and fiber are not scarce in the current environment.  In fact, they have never been more plentiful or easily accessible.


Fourth of all, from the final cause we would expect human taste buds to do what they do, people to do what they do, and Eliezer to do what he does, which in this case is to misunderstand what is a final cause.  For instance, Eliezer's argument implies that he believes that taste buds purchase candy bars or that man lacks free will.

In a world where man fools himself in designating effects as causes, teleology reminds him in his midnight hour that purpose is drawn from effect because ultimate cause is ultimate purpose.  Theology is proper philosophy and teleology is theology applied.

עם ישראל חי

Nihil Dicit

Everyone knows the nature of the truth that is concealed from the public record by this taking of the Fifth.  Obviously.

Less obvious is the implication of fully digesting such an eminently dangerous realization: that this case clearly calls out for a Grand Inquisitor.  But Americans are not worthy of government that displays even the pretense of probity or virtue so whining, negotiating, and reforming will have to suffice.

Our maître à penser:

And yet, when we reflect, that the Inquisition, by its restrictions, and authority, would have prevented the French Revolution - it is hard to say, whether the Sovereign, who, wholly, and without reserve, gave up this instrument, would not, in reality, be doing an injury to humanity.

Americans know not the depths of rot to which their nation has sunk.

But they sure do deserve it.

Rep. Paul Ryan Encounters Sovereign Lawmaker

This interaction between Representative Paul Ryan and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen says too much.

Repeat after me, Congressman: the United States is not a nation of laws; the United States is a nation of men.

Let us suppose that Congressman Paul Ryan did not so much enjoy the perks, prestige, and privileges accrued to him by virtue of his esteemed post in the House of Representatives.  Perhaps in such a farcical world Representative Ryan would have delivered a line more appropriate for the occasion of stumbling upon a man that enforces law by obstructing justice, such as:

I hereby resign from my post in Congress because I no longer believe that I can deliver on my obligations as I perceive them as Representative of Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District.

Alas, tender reader, we live not in a farcical world.  We live in the real one.  And this charade should boost Representative Ryan's ratings among Tea Partiers!

And so the world turns.

But, Americans - my dear, precious Americans, please - look at that man.  No, not the Congressman - the lawmaker.  Look at him.  Study him.

Imagine his world.

He openly flouts your representatives.  He lies by omission.  He admits nothing; he denies everything.

Look at him.

Notice his composure.  Notice his calm composure.  He is secure.

He is secure in his secret knowledge.

For as long as he testifies before Congress, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen pronounces truth, for there must always be one to whom it may not be said: you have erred.

Koskinen is - for the purposes of the IRS scandal - the face of sovereignty.

Koskinen forswears all knowledge, denies all allegations, and refuses all suspicions.  His words admit nothing, but what he does not mention says far too much.

He does not accuse; he does not beg; he does not reveal; he does not plead; he does not request; he does not complain; he does not question.

He defines what was and what is for the record.

By admitting nothing Koskinen literally makes law as only a sovereign can - by saying nothing at all.

And so, tender reader, that Representative Ryan does not believe the IRS Commissioner matters not.  Sovereignty requires not belief - only obedience.